If that smartphone Presidential Alert is used for anything other than disclosing UFO's or a call for a nationwide meditation/prayer session, it is just going to be a whole lot less exciting.
(cont) It has existed in some form since the early 60s (EBS and CONELRAD). It's the same system that sends tornado warnings.
The only time in the history of the EBS/EAS that called for a national alert, it wasn't used. The first national test was a disaster. This test was much better. (cont)
